The present research was undertaken to investigate the emergence of
conscious awareness of underlying verbal and visual rules over time in survivors
of moderate, closed-head trauma.
A total of 25 adult patients ...

It has been proposed that phages can be used commercially as a biopesticide for
the control of fire blight caused by the phytopathogen Erwinia amylovora. The aim of
these studies was to investigate two common bacterial ...

In contemporary times, there is a compelling need to understand the nature of positive community relationships that value diverse others. This dissertation is a hermeneutic phenomenological inquiry into the essence of what ...

Sour rot is characterized by increased volatile acidity (VA) in ripe grapes. VA is associated with spoilage organisms and wineries may reject grape crops based on their concentration of acetic acid. Our research associated ...

Many arthropods exhibit behaviours precursory to social life, including adult
longevity, parental care, nest loyalty and mutual tolerance, yet there are few examples of
social behaviour in this phylum. The small carpenter ...

The goal of the four studies that comprised this dissertation was to examine how
spirituality/religiosity (SIR), as both an institutional and personal phenomenon,
developed over time, and how its institutional (i.e., ...

Group memberships represent important components of identity, with people holding membership in various groups and categories. The groups that one belongs to are known as ingroups, and the groups that one does not belong ...

The learning community model has been an integral component of teacher
development in Ontarian schools and beyond. This research was conducted to understand
how teachers' personal capacity and professional, interpersonal, ...

Diatoms are renowned for their robust ability to perform NPQ (Non-Photochemical Quenching of chlorophyll fluorescence) as a dissipative response to heightened light stress on photosystem II, plausibly explaining their ...

This thesis investigated the modulation of dynamic contractile function and energetics of work by posttetanic potentiation (PTP). Mechanical experiments were conducted in vitro using software-controlled protocols to ...

Strategies designed to improve educational systems have created tensions in
school personnel as they struggle to respond to competing demands of ongoing
change within their daily realities. The purpose of this case study ...

The monoterpenoid indole alkaloids (MIAs) of Madagascar periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) are known to be among the most important source of natural drugs used in various cancer chemotherapies. MIAs are derived by combining ...

Monoterpenoid indole alkaloids (MIAs) are a large and heterogeneous group of nitrogen-containing specialized metabolites produced by plants belonging to the Apocynaceae, Loganiaceae and Rubiaceae families. Many of these ...

Grape (Vitis spp.) is a culturally and economically important crop plant that has
been cultivated for thousands of years, primarily for the production of wine. Grape
berries accumulate a myriad of phenylpropanoid secondary ...

Self-regulation is considered a powerful predictor of behavioral and mental health
outcomes during adolescence and emerging adulthood. In this dissertation I address some
electrophysiological and genetic correlates of ...

This thesis describes syntheses and catalytic reactivity of several half-sandwich complexes of ruthenium. The neutral ruthenium trihydride complex, Cp(PPri3)RuH3(1), can efficiently catalyse the H/D exchange reaction between ...

Genome sequence varies in numerous ways among individuals although the gross architecture is fixed for all humans. Retrotransposons create one of the most abundant structural variants in the human genome and are divided ...